Figure 1 Traveling salesman problem *shabnam022 @ gmail.com Many heuristic techniques have been used to find the efficient solution to the problem like greedy method, ant algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search and genetic algorithms [3]. But as the number of cities increases the computation to find the solution becomes difficult. Despite the computational difficulty, we can use methods like genetic algorithms and tabu search which can give near to optimal solution for thousands of cities. In this paper we provide overview of different approaches used for solving travelling salesman problem.